If you regularly catch my reviews and articles here at ScreenAnarchy than you know I totally dig the Slamdance Film Festival, that beautiful anarchic step child of Park City who shines a considerable spotlight on first-time filmmakers with flicks made for under a million bucks. Some of my absolute favorite films from the last few years (Without, The Sound Of Small Things, Fynbos) have premiered at the festival. These have proven to be among some of the freshest, most fascinating and exciting indie voices to emerge from across the globe. So it's safe to say that the folks at Slamdance have their hand firmly on the pulse of what's new and different in cinema.

It makes me doubly pleased then to share the news that Slamdance has teamed up with the folks at Cinedigm to bring some of these festival films to home viewers in the U.S.. So what can you expect and when? Well, starting next Tuesday, June 11th, the 2011 Grand Jury Winner Stranger Things and Hybrid, the award-winning doc on pioneering farmer Milford Beeghly, will be available across various digital platforms and VOD services. Rudd Simmon's The First Season will follow in September. I'll be dropping a further word on Stranger Things next Monday in my Indie Beat column, but until then... press release!

CINEDIGM AND SLAMDANCE PARTNER TO BRING SLATE OF FEATURE
PROGRAMMING TO DIGITAL PLATFORMS

First Titles To Include STRANGER
THINGS, HYBRID and THE FIRST SEASON

Los Angeles, CA, June 5, 2013--Cinedigm (NASDAQ: CIDM) announced
today a partnership with Slamdance that will bring a slate of feature
programming to digital platforms beginning on June 11th.

Slamdance is a year-round organization by
filmmakers for filmmakers that was founded in 1995 in Park City, Utah. Entering
its 20th year, the Slamdance Film Festival has served as the launching pad for
many respected filmmakers' careers, including Christopher Nolan, Marc Forster,
Behn Zeitlin, Lynn Shelton, and Jared Hess.

"The partnership between Cinedigm and Slamdance is a natural,"
said Erick Opeka, Senior Vice President, Digital, Cinedigm. "Cinedigm is the
worldwide leader in digital independent content distribution and Slamdance has
always been very innovative and forward-looking on the digital front. We expect
to have great success in launching their films on a variety of established and
emerging digital platforms."

The first two films releasing on June 11th are STRANGER
THINGSand HYBRID, while THE FIRST SEASONwill launch in
September.

STRANGER THINGS

Set in a remote village on the south coast of England, STRANGER
THINGStells the story of Oona, a young woman who develops an unusual
and touching bond with a streetwise homeless man after returning to her
childhood home. A New York Times
Critics' Pick, the film was the winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the 2011 Slamdance
Film Festival and the Raindance Film Festival. The film, described by Filmmaker Magazine as "a
delicately beautiful debut feature," stars Adeel Akhtar (FOUR
LIONS, THE DICTATOR) and is
Eleanor Burke and Ron Eyal's directorial debut.

HYBRID

Winner
of the Truer Than Fiction Award at the 2002 Independent Spirit Awards, HYBRID
explores the life of Milford Beeghly, an Iowa farmer who led the charge for
hybrid corn during the 1930s. The award-winning documentary is directed by
Beeghly's grandson, Monteith McCollum, and combines interviews, archival
footage, original animation and a rare dry wit to create a meditative portrait
of the decidedly odd Beeghly. HYBRID is the winner of numerous
awards, including the Honorable Mention Award at the 2001 International
Documentary Association, the Grand Jury Prize in the documentary category at
the 2001 Slamdance Film Festival and the Award for Original Vision at the 2001
Newport International Film Festival.

THE FIRST SEASON

In
an intimate, verite style, THE FIRST
SEASON tells the story of
Paul and Phyllis van Amburgh who spend their life savings on a dream: starting
a small, family farm. With three children, a fourth on the way and their
savings depleted, the van Amburghs are forced to confront the risks and
challenges of living their dream. THE FIRST SEASON premiered at the 2012 Slamdance film Festival and is Rudd Simmons's (PRODUCER, BOARDWALK EMPIRE) directorial
debut.

About Cinedigm

Over the past
decade, Cinedigm has led the digital distribution revolution that continues to
transform the media landscape. In addition to its pioneering role in
transitioning movie theatres from traditional film prints to digital
distribution, Cinedigm continues to advance worldwide cinema modernization with
its suite of software products allowing exhibitors and distributors to manage
their newly digital businesses with efficiency, insight and certainty. And, as
the leading distributor of independent content in the world, Cinedigm
collaborates with producers and the exhibition community with unequalled
transparency to market, source, curate and distribute quality content across
all digital platforms to targeted and profitable audiences. The company's
library of over 5,000 titles includes award-winning documentaries from Docurama
Films®, next-gen indies from Flatiron Film Company® and acclaimed independent
films and festival picks through partnerships with the Sundance Institute and
Tribeca Film. Cinedigm is proud to distribute many Oscar®-nominated films
including THE INVISIBLE WAR, HELL AND BACK AGAIN, GASLAND, WASTE LAND and PARADISE
LOST 3: PURGATORY.

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About Slamdance
As a year-round organization, Slamdance serves as a showcase for the discovery
of the new and emerging talent and is dedicated to the nurturing and
development of new independent artists and their cinematic vision. Slamdance
continues to live by its mantra: "By Filmmakers, For Filmmakers." No other
festival is fully programmed by filmmakers.

Slamdance is proud to count among its alumni many notable writers and directors
who first gained notice at the festival, including such cinematic luminaries as
Christopher Nolan, Oren Peli, Marc Forester, Jared Hess, Lena Dunham, Behn
Zeitlin, Anthony and Joe Russo, Seth Gordon, and Lynn Shelton. New filmmakers
and writers today realize that Slamdance is a place to launch their
careers.

The 2014 Film Festival will run from January 17-23 in Park City, Utah alongside
Sundance and will mark Slamdance's 20th Year. You can be sure it will
continue to burn with the desire to discover and support emerging artists from
all different walks of life, all over the world.